Transparency Ordinance

No DAC For BART – August 9th 9:00AM – 2040 Webster Oakland

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On Thursday, BART police will propose a system-wide security dragnet for the Bay Area’s transit system. BART police are asking the board to approve the project in concept and authorize trials at Lake Merritt and Civic Center BART stations.

No privacy policy.

No civil rights impact assessment.

No data storage and access rules. 

No biased and inaccurate facial recognition on BART

No go.  

Email the BART board or come tell them yourself on Thursday August 9 at 9am at 2040 Webster in Oakland (3rd Floor).

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Drones

ICE Protests Highlight Contra Costa County Sheriff Drone Program

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Reprinted from Center for Human Rights and Privacy 

 

Many protesters observed the use of multiple drones at the West Contra Costa County Detention Center on June 30, 2018, during a protest against ICE and its practice of family separation. Journalist Darwin BondGraham wrote about this in an East Bay Express article on July 3, 2018. Documents released in response to a public records request indicated that the drone was also flown over the June 26, 2018, protest at the same facility.

The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle/system) program was started in 2016. The agency purchased its first drone on September 7, 2016, a DJI Phantom 4, from Fry’s Electronics on Willow Pass Road for $1,685.14. The drone was returned and exchanged for the same model on September 13, 2016.

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Risk Assessment

114 Civil Rights Groups on Pre-Trial Risk Assessment

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114 civil and human rights groups, including Oakland Privacy, joined together to urge that pre-trial detention including risk assessment or predictive software and electronic shackles, be used as infrequently as possible.

Pretrial “risk assessment” instruments – although they may seem objective or neutral – threaten to further intensify unwarranted discrepancies in the justice system and to provide a misleading and undeserved imprimatur of impartiality for an institution that desperately needs fundamental change.

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Public Records

Aaron Swartz Day Tutorial: How To Cut And Paste Your Way To A Surveillance Policy Framework

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The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project  aims to empower professional journalists and “citizen journalists,” so they can quickly and easily file a large set of public records requests to the Police and Sheriff Departments of a given city.

The set of public records requests templates is integrated with the Muckrock platform and you you can use them to get a comprehensive snapshot of how they are watching you in any city or county in California.

In about 90 minutes

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